With Passover just around the corner, I’m starting to test the recipes I’ll use at seder. I always make my chocolate tort but this year in addition I decided to make something fruity. Okay – here’s the real story behind this recipe. I thought instead of making Tzimmes, I’d do something different with sweet potatoes. I thought maybe maple sweetened sliced sweet potatoes with some kind of a crumble on top. Then I thought ‘how about some fruit in that’…so in went sliced apples and raisins. I baked the whole thing forever ’cause nothing wanted to soften and I ended up with this weird dish that was almost dessert – but not quite.

The topping, however, was divine.

So this is my next try – I got rid of the sweet potatoes and went straight for a fruit crisp. I used 4 cups of peeled and sliced apple and 3 cups of (frozen) blueberries. It tasted delicious but I confess that again the apples took forever to cook (about 1 1/2 hours). I think that’s because I used “hard” apples – you know: fuji and honey crisp, and pinks. If you choose to make this with apples, I think macintosh would be a better choice as they soften much better. But you could also make this with all berries, or ripe pears instead of the apples would be delicious. If peaches are in season that would be great…anything will taste super under this crisp top (maybe not liver…)